Title: El Bulli: Cooking in Progress Director: Gereon Wetzel For the first six months of the year, renowned Spanish chef Ferran Adria closes his tiny restaurant elBulli, overlooking Catalonia’s Costa Brava Bay, and works with his culinary team to prepare for the next season. (Or did — the amazing restaurant has now shuttered permanently, set to re-open in 2014 as only a culinary center and institute.) “El Bulli: Cooking in Progress,” a rather elegantly simplistic and hands-off exploration of food as avant-garde art, spotlights this unusual process, and cooks up all sorts of elemental yearnings in the tastebuds of viewers. Adria is one of the undisputed masters of haute cuisine (one of…

Shakira is under fire from Spanish officials after a video of her dancing in the historic public foundation at Pla de Palau in Barcelona and riding a motorcycle without a helmet surfaced on YouTube, Popeater.com reported on August 21. The Colombian singer may face fines for various infractions, including disrupting traffic as he dance around in bikini. The video was for Shakira’s upcoming single with Dizzee Rascal, ‘Loca,’ off of her upcoming Spanish album, ‘Slae El Sol,’ due in stores on November 2. While the video was about breaking rules, there are questions over whether the 33-year-old singer actually broke any Spanish laws.  Since the Spanish media is saying Shakira…

Director Carlos Atanes let us know that his sci-fil film “Proxima” is now available for download at IndieFlix.com. “Proxima” which was written and directed by Carlos Atanes stars Oriol Aubets, Anthony Blake, Manuel Solas, Abel Folk and Joan Frank Charansonnet. Synopsis: A renowned SF writer is at a local convention to talk about his work. As he takes the podium he renounces his work as utter fictional rubbish and declares that he has found a portal to another world, orbiting the star PROXIMA. “Simply listen to my new book-on-CD and be delivered”, he proclaims. Unsurprisingly, this bizarre announcement is not well received by his fans. But Tony, the owner of…